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Article: Husband-and-wife premieres of works honoring Rostropovich.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 1, 1997
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Robert and Clara? Gustav and Alma? Eugene and Teresa? Even those exalted pairs of married composers never claimed the bit of history to be achieved by Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands in Boston this month.
In concerts beginning Thursday in Boston, then April 9 and 10 at Carnegie Hall in New York, the husband and wife composers will eclipse the Schumanns, the Mahlers and the d'Alberts when the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays the premieres in the same program of Thomas' ``Chanson'' and Rands' ``Concerto No. 1'' _ both works written for cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
The symphony wasn't looking for that kind of history when the whole idea ...